Vought Rising trailer reveals out first look at Prime Video's The Boys prequel

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Published May 22, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT

Soldier Boy returns to action next year in Vought Rising

Prime Video released the final episode of The Boys on May 20, but fans won’t have to wait long to return to the Vought Cinematic Universe. The first teaser trailer for Vought Rising confirms that the prequel series will be released in 2027 and provides a taste of its plot, which has some similarities with one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s darkest storylines.

The teaser, which was first shared at theatrical screenings of The Boys series finale, shows Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) looking for a chance to be a hero and fight for the flag. Set in 1950 New York, the series follows the creation of the first team of superheroes who gained their powers by taking V-One. The group includes Bombsight (Mason Dye), a rival of Soldier Boy seen in The Boys season 5. The program is led by Clara Vought (Aya Cash), a Nazi who went by Stormfront when she joined The Seven in The Boys season 2.

But while the heroes are touted as a gift from God, their abilities come from twisted experiments. Vought Rising shows an early version of the Sage Grove Center featured in season 2 of The Boys, where Stormfront and Vought were working to develop new versions of Compound V by experimenting on psychiatric patients. At Sage Grove Manor, an unnamed character played by Jorden Myrie is injected with a version of V that gives him super strength and toughness, allowing him to escape from a containment cell.

Jensen Ackles wears a green leather jacket and mask as Soldier Boy in Vought Rising

Given Vought’s Nazi roots, it’s unsurprising that their public-facing heroes are all white and that they’re conducting secret experiments on Black men. The plot echoes the story of Isaiah Bradley (Carl Lumbly) in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Isaiah is a Korean War veteran whose all-Black unit was used as test subjects to try to replicate the Super Soldier Serum that gave Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) his powers. Isaiah was created for the 2003 limited Marvel Comics series Truth: Red, White & Black, where his origins were inspired by the actual Tuskegee Experiment the U.S. government conducted on Black men between 1932 and 1972.

The Boys has confronted white supremacy better than most superhero stories, and Vought Rising appears poised to do the same. The trailer also delivers plenty of blood and gore, part of the absurdism that The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke tells Polygon has protected his show from censorship even as it offers scathing critiques of the U.S. government.

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